Zelda BotW: Can It Actually Score a 98/99 on Metacritic? GOAT? (Based on previews)

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BraLoD said:

Goodnightmoon said:

All the previews I read all highlight how amazingly beautiful the game is anbd how surprisingly gorgeous some zones are, that's the first one saying otherways, I don't think is gonna be a problem at all.

Even as he is not an reviewer, one of our biggest and most famous youtuber here, which loves Nintendo, shares that same sentiment, that he loved playing the demos, but that the game is technically not impressive, have lower quality textures than he would like, and was rough around the edges, but that he simply loved playing it, and he is almost a media guy, actually the guys from the indie game Jotun actually quoted his opinion together with IGN on their official trailer on the official PlayStation channel XD.

I'm fairly sure some reviewers will give some cuts on the score because it's not technically on the same level as other open world game (specially with Horizon just hitting), but they will be minor cuts, like 100s turning into 95s or such, maybe even a bit more, which are uncommon scores, like 96, 97, 98 and 99, maybe we'll be seeing a considerable amount of those, but with 100s still being quite a bunch of the total amount.

So yeah, there are people that think that way, I actually also do, I think it's beautiful but artistically, it does looks kinda bland and dated if compared to the big games we have today as The Witcher and Horizon, honestly. I don't think it's particularly a problem, but it's a point to be taken, on an objective analysis.

While it may be a bit behind in pure graphical "prettiness", the artstyle more than makes up for it.I personally prefer this artstyle than simply going for realism in many cases, which is what Horizon strives for.Its my opinion, and while I did not have played the game to really know the extent of those "bland" textures, I would not discount any score due to that from what I have seen and read.I think this is one thing that will vary from reviewer to reviewer, and if the overall game is good enough so that this "problem" can simply be overlooked.